What's going on?

Travel scrabble. The Borrowers. Micro pigs. Cold, hard proof that
when you make things smaller, you make them better (sort of). So, we've gone
and made some little versions of your favourite juice blends, for when
you're on the move. Now, not only can you pick up a handy 330ml apple juice or orange juice, you can also plump for an apple & raspberry juiceand apple
& mango juice too.

You can find them in selected stores (including Waitrose) right
this minute.

Three cheers for the innocent
juice team, the hardest working folks in fruit towers*.

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Over the years, we've been sent some lovely things from our
drinkers. Other times, we’ve been sent some weird things from our drinkers.
We’ll let you decide which category the following letter from John Collins
falls under:

We just hope he’s careful not to mix the bottles up
afterwards.

If you’ve got
any unorthodox uses for our bottles we…think…we’d love to hear about them in
the comments (those advertising campaigns aren't going to come up with themselves), so be sure to let us know.

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The apple season is underway, so last
week we headed out to the orchard to have a look at the apples that will end up
in our drinks.

Here's a picture of our Rowena, Fliss and Catherine in the orchard. (We seem to have caught Fliss in the middle of tasting an apple, sorry.)

We were there to taste the apples and find out
how this year's harvest is looking. Highlights of our trip included riding on
tractors around the orchard, and of course tasting the apples straight from the
trees. Lowlights included the compulsory dungarees.

We saw how after every seven apple trees there's
a gap, where a berry bush has been planted - that's for the birds, so they
don't go hungry in the winter.

We saw for ourselves how the trees are fed,
watered, drained, pruned and harvested, and chatted about various philosophies
on growing apples. We especially liked learning about the school of thought
that says that apple trees should be planted among wildflowers, which helps
draw the nitrogen into the soil, and is great for bees, who pollenate the apple
trees. It's part of a holistic approach, looking at the orchard as a whole
ecosystem, which increasing numbers of growers are adopting. Makes a lot of sense.

There will be further trips out to see and taste
the apples and learn more later in the season, but in the meantime we’re very
happy with the way the apples are tasting this year.

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Today is our juice carafe's first birthday. To celebrate we sang
happy birthday, we played pass the parcel and Dave F's wife made
this rather lovely orange sponge cake. Being an inanimate object
our carafe wasn't able to enjoy the cake, so we did the decent
thing and helped it out. It was delicious.

You may also remember that last week we set you the challenge of
writing an ode to our juice carafe. We had some cracking entries
but there could only be 3 winners, so a big well done to Lydia,
Paulme and Becky whose tales of hullabaloo, marching bands and
vodka made us smile a lot.

Its our juice carafe's first birthday,We are planning to have a great laugh,All our staff will be singing hip hip hip
hooray,For the success of our posh jug, the carafe.The apples and oranges, all of our fruits,The staff, and Richard Reed too,Are going to strip down to their birthday
suits,And cause quite a hullabaloo.

It's our juice carafe's first birthdayA Juice of high reputeTwelve months of loving labourDevoted to the fruitThe finest natural productFrom Innocent to youAdd a drop of VodkaAnd make it naughty too

It's our juice carafe's first birthday,Bring on the marching band,Bursting with fruit and here to stay,They're the zest-iest in the land.So let's dance for joy and celebrate,Gather round all your friends,'Cos they're never made from concentrate,And there's even some exciting new blends.

Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations to Lydia,
Paulme and Becky. A case of our juice will be on its way to you
shortly.

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